I decide today that I wanted to create an Alternating Ping-Pong Hello delay. I'm familiar with this effect from some "vintage" products.
In a Hello Delay, the echoes are heard in patterns that evoke the rhythm of the word "Hello".
For example, in a pattern based on 4/16th notes, echoes are heard on the last 16th note of every beat, and on every downbeat.
In a Ping-Pong delay, echoes alternate left, right, left, right, and so on.
In an Alternating Ping-Pong (Ping-Pong/Pong-Ping?) echoes alternate Left-Right, then flip to Right-Left, and so on.
To create the Alternating Ping Pong Hello Delay, I turned to the Quad Series algorithm of the Multitap Delay block. There are almost certainly other ways to do this, but this just jumped into my mind as fairly easy. I set the parameters as follows and it works:
Let's look at why.
In the following diagram, each of the delay lines is color coded. 1=red, 2=orange, 3=green, 4=blue. In the Quad Series delay, the time/tempo settings are relative to the tap before (or in the case of delay 1, to the input/dry signal. The taps are in SERIES (thus the name). So, the settings shown above – 1/8 dot, 1/16, 1/8 dot, 1/16 – sound like this (each vertical line represents 1/16 note).
I've set the pans as shown in the circles. I lowered the level of 3 and 4 just a bit for the desired effect.
Next, By setting the Feedback Send to tap 4, and the Feedback Return to Tap 1, the above pattern is made to repeat as shown below:
So that's the Alternating Ping Pong Hello Delay. I've inserted the block into a preset so you can try it easily. I added a few variants across the scenes. I hope you enjoy it.
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M@
In a Hello Delay, the echoes are heard in patterns that evoke the rhythm of the word "Hello".
For example, in a pattern based on 4/16th notes, echoes are heard on the last 16th note of every beat, and on every downbeat.
In a Ping-Pong delay, echoes alternate left, right, left, right, and so on.
In an Alternating Ping-Pong (Ping-Pong/Pong-Ping?) echoes alternate Left-Right, then flip to Right-Left, and so on.
To create the Alternating Ping Pong Hello Delay, I turned to the Quad Series algorithm of the Multitap Delay block. There are almost certainly other ways to do this, but this just jumped into my mind as fairly easy. I set the parameters as follows and it works:
Let's look at why.
In the following diagram, each of the delay lines is color coded. 1=red, 2=orange, 3=green, 4=blue. In the Quad Series delay, the time/tempo settings are relative to the tap before (or in the case of delay 1, to the input/dry signal. The taps are in SERIES (thus the name). So, the settings shown above – 1/8 dot, 1/16, 1/8 dot, 1/16 – sound like this (each vertical line represents 1/16 note).
I've set the pans as shown in the circles. I lowered the level of 3 and 4 just a bit for the desired effect.
Next, By setting the Feedback Send to tap 4, and the Feedback Return to Tap 1, the above pattern is made to repeat as shown below:
So that's the Alternating Ping Pong Hello Delay. I've inserted the block into a preset so you can try it easily. I added a few variants across the scenes. I hope you enjoy it.
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M@